For olim hadashim, and anyone still deciding
You moved your whole life here. Staying is the fight nobody warns you about: which office, which form, which benefit you are owed, which window is quietly closing. Most people who leave Israel leave over this grind, not over the dream. This is the list nobody hands you, built so your aliyah sticks.
Supplemental health insurance
Arrival → 90 days
Reduced purchase tax on a home
Arrival → 7 years
Rental assistance, periphery rate
Month 7 → Month 36
Driving on your foreign licence
Arrival → 1 year
Customs exemption, three shipments
Arrival → 3 years
Every figure dated and sourced. Sums are illustrative, on a ₪3M home and a couple in a priority area.
We track 8 dated windows across 30 tasks, each with its source and the date we checked it.
Why not just use the free guides?
Because they go stale and present it as current. As of mid-2026 the Israeli government’s own New Immigrant Guide is dated 2022, and Nefesh B’Nefesh’s flagship post-aliyah PDF still reads 2020, on figures that move every year. Here, every benefit, deadline and number carries the day it was last checked, and when one goes stale the page says so instead of quietly lying. See exactly how current we are.
Start where you are
Aliyah is a journey with stages, and each one has its own worries and its own deadlines. Pick where you are and see what matters now.
Use it inside Claude
Aliyahu is a Claude connector. No Team plan, no sign-in. Add it once and Claude can work out your purchase tax, match cities, check draft timing and more, live from the sourced data here.
https://aliyahu.com/api/mcpThen ask: We are buying a 2.5M ₪ first home after aliyah in 2025. What is our purchase tax, and what arnona discount can we claim?
Everything here is free
Work out what each decision is actually worth in shekels, from figures that carry their source and check date.
Explore
235
dated resources
Each one says what it saves you, when it matters and the day we checked it.
OpenDocuments
17
papers to gather
8 need an apostille, and the order you do that in matters.
OpenProtect yourself
How each one works, what the law or the fair price actually is, and the words to use to refuse. Patterns, never named businesses.
See the patternsWhere to live
Official CBS figures on contracts actually signed, not asking prices. We say plainly which places have no official data rather than inventing it.
Compare placesYour plan
Answer a few questions and it narrows to your situation, in dependency order, with every deadline turned into a real date you can put in your own calendar.
Who pays for this
Aliyahu is free, carries no ads and sells nothing. There is no ministry behind it and no nonprofit: it is built and paid for by one oleh hadash, over hundreds of hours, because the information olim need is scattered, stale and too often wrong. If it caught a deadline for you or saved you a wasted morning at a government office, a coffee is what keeps it independent and current.
These are the three complaints that come up again and again, and none of them are a personal failing. They are what happens when the process assumes you already know how it works.
We will not tell you it is easy. The appointment may be months out, your income will probably dip before it recovers, and a clerk may ask for a document that was on no list you were given. Knowing that in advance is worth more than encouragement.
What we can do is make sure none of it arrives as a surprise.